3. Animations

It’s hard to find anyone under 65 who didn’t grow up watching cartoons on television. Kids have fun watching cartoon characters run, jump, and fly around the screen. It’s the same creating animations for presentations and displays. Images and text can magically appear and disappear on the screen. Objects can jump up and down for emphasis. Illustrations can come to life.

Even if you’ve never created any sort of video or animation, it’s easy to apply motion effects to InDesign elements. We like this much better than trying to work with Adobe Flash Professional. You use the familiar tools in InDesign but export ...

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